Just got out of a faculty meeting, the last 30 or so minutes of which were essentially wasted time because of figuring out how to satisfy a well-intentioned but needlessly nitpicking ABA requirement.
It makes you wonder how much collective faculty time is lost each year because of the ABA. And yet the one thing that AALS decides to stand up to the ABA on is the self-serving issue of the ABA's proposed elimination of tenure as a requirement of accreditation.
Faculty business will always expand to fill the amount of time available. Nature. Vacuum. Hence, even if the BA had not adopted whichever requirement earned your (doubtless justified) ire, the faculty meeting probably would not have ended any earlier.
Posted by: Steve Bainbridge | April 12, 2011 at 04:49 PM